"Fratres, omni die videtis cum vadit istud regnum in perdicionem": Abbo of Saint-Germain and the Crisis of 888

West, Charles (2016) "Fratres, omni die videtis cum vadit istud regnum in perdicionem": Abbo of Saint-Germain and the Crisis of 888. Reti Medievali Rivista, 17 (2). pp. 301-317. ISSN 1593-2214

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Abstract

Historians often consider the year 888 to have marked the effective end of the Carolingian empire established by Charlemagne. This paper explores the issue from the perspective of a contemporary author, the monk Abbo of Saint-Germain des Prés. Abbo is today best known for his poem about the Viking sieges of Paris, but he later also compiled a fascinating and rather overlooked set of sermons. Taken together, these texts offer an insight into contemporary responses to the “crisis” that followed the deposition and death of Emperor Charles the Fat.

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Additional Information: Nella sezione monografica: "The collapse of the early medieval European kingdoms (8th-9th centuries)", a cura di Iñaki Martín Viso. - This article was completed in the course of a Visiting Fellowship at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh. Research for it was supported by AHRC grant AH/L010623/1, and by a Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship hosted at the Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Odo of Paris, Abbo of Saint-Germain, Vikings, West Francia, Kingship
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User: dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited: 27 Dec 2016 15:58
Last Modified: 27 Dec 2016 15:58
URI: http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/4445

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